Well, That Was The Worst WWE Career Ever

Just last year, Cain Velasquez was brought in at great expense to ruin two auras: his own, and that of Kofi Kingston as a headliner. His in-ring contribution amounted to two minutes and 10 seconds. Phantasio had a sh*ter. Buff Bagwell was so awful that he was laughed out of the company, but he had one mega-fan in his mother, at least. Eva Marie worked that inspired match with Bayley in NXT. Nia Jax has somehow avoided murdering one of her peers, but the Ronda matches were well good.

But did any of them contrive to make Baron "Let's conflate a wrestling journalist who doesn't rate my work with an awful disease that shatters the lives of millions" Corbin halfway sympathetic?

Perhaps, in the end, the Gronk - his doofus demeanour belying clever instincts - was too smart to play the game. He removed his sunglasses and took in his surroundings. He saw a reckless carny racket illegally operating out of an empty gym shrouded in darkness. There, he was greeted by a horde of lads who, and it's just as well, can barely catch a bloody thing. He got the heebie-jeebies, speaking every subsequent word with a quiver.

And then he literally took a dive.